Neely-Venable: Friends from way back who deployed together as Captain and First Sergeant

Nye-Musselman: Roommates in Iraq; in same humvee

Reed-Peacock: Comanche guys who go way back

Brosh-Schuster: First Platoon guys always making everyone laugh

Hillier-Green: Second Platoon guys; now co-workers at Goodyear

Zerger-Roe: Third Platoon guys who deployed together twice

Fitzgerald-Lynn: First Platoon guys; Lynn was Fitz's RTO (radio bitch) at FOB Falcon on Fort Lewis; both are officers now (Lynn went OCS); both have Fort Worth ties

Some very natural rivalries had to take a back seat to make everything work for week 13. For example, Hillier and Reed were roommates in Iraq and would make great rivals, but Hillier was the best fit for Green. Schuster could have been anybody's rival just about. I'm not sure what that says about him, but he'll have lots of guys gunning for him. Brosh could have been assigned to Marlow boy Hillier or Stephens County (and First Platoon) guy Peacock. Same with Lynn. It just works out best the way I have it above. I'll create a schedule for 2015 prior to the season with these matchups as the week 13.

If you're curious what your other rivalries are, go to your manager page at okiraqi.org/[last name].

If there are any rivalries you feel I'm missing, let me know. We'll keep track of them on your manager pages for bragging rights.